I told the students to read Mardis 2013 though in the end I kind of wished I had used Mardis 2008. Also – one limitation of these papers is that they are not open access so I spent some time also looking for open access papers that reviewed sequencing technology, especially those with a focus on more modern issues in sequencing (I got some help from the Twittersphere but need to compile that information still). I found the following that seemed OK: